Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Leofwine_draca This is a fun, if nonthreatening, addition to the Universal horror canon, a film which unsuccessfully attempts to sequel two different movies – THE WOLF MAN and THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. I say unsuccessful, because as a Frankenstein movie this is a piece of trash; it only really works for Lon Chaney Jr., as the Wolf Man, because he gets most of the screen time and all of the best scenes. The film is worth watching for a who's who cast of all the Universal bit-players and character actors from the period and for the sterling efforts of Sherlock Holmes director Roy William Neill, who drags every last bit of drama, comedy, and horror from the predictable script. The film starts off well with plenty of atmosphere in a superbly-built graveyard set and carries in the same uncertain vein for a good while. However, with the appearance of the now-pitiful Frankenstein's monster, it all descends into farce, although the OTT conclusion is fairly entertaining in a cheesy way.Characters are flat and one-dimensional, but what actors! Patric Knowles is a fare more humane and realistic mad scientist than his predecessors and gives a good performance; Illona Massey as the token female-in-distress is appalling. Lon Chaney Jr. really goes over the top with his hangdog eyes and endless pitiful soliloquies, but comes out of it quite well. The special effects of his transformations are also top-notch. Bela Lugosi, as the Frankenstein Monster, is simply pathetic and totally miscast in the role. The sight of the overweight monster wandering around with its eyes closed and arms stretched out is laughable and a real degradation of the creature. Maria Ouspenskaya returns from The Wolf Man as the mad gypsy woman and, despite being good value for money, is wasted.The best performances lie in the worst-written roles. Lionel Atwill, once king of the horror genre but long since fallen from grace, is excellent in his role as the town mayor, although I would have preferred to see him as a bad guy. Even good old Dwight Frye turns up, instantly recognisable as one of the crowd members, although he is unfortunately limited to only a couple of lines. Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Best of all his Inspector Lestrade himself, Sherlock Holmes star Dennis Hoey, playing the same character in all but name (he even wears the same clothing). Hoey is a delight but his screen time all too brief. The film gradually falls apart but affectionate fans will have a ball. The clash at the end between Wolfman and Monster is obviously played with stunt men, but is fun nonetheless and contains an ultra-cheesy model effects short. It's also astonishingly abrupt. The laboratory scenes are great and moody and Chaney's lamentations are also a joy to watch. Hardly a classic movie, but fun for nostalgia buffs and fast-paced and short enough to enjoy.

atinder I didn't think it was as good as I expected to beI thought it started off really well but as the movie went on.I felt like something was missing from previous 2 movies for both seriesI didn't really like how the movie ended far to quick for me , I felt like they a least could of done a bit of aftermathI was not impressed with the fight scence , I was looking forward to that see but guess now away day it look a bit tameThe acting in this movie was really good from the whole cast I am going to give this movie 5 out of 10

bkoganbing Universal Pictures teamed two of their monster elite in Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man. Right up until Abbott&Costello burlesqued the whole Gothic horror genre you couldn't keep these monsters down. Kill them in one film and they're back again. Gothic horror was one leg of the three legged stool that kept Universal Studios in business, the other two being Abbott&Costello and Deanna Durbin. The whole mess gets started again when grave robbers enter the Talbot family crypt for some night work and awaken Lon Chaney, Jr. restored with appetites still intact. After a night's werewolfing he's brought unconscious to Patric Knowles clinic and Dr. Knowles figures out he's lycanthropic.Chaney then checks out Maria Ouspenskaya the mother of the werewolf who bit him and passed the werewolf curse on to him. She has no gypsy spells to cure Chaney, but they both agree to go to Germany and look for the records of Dr. Frankenstein who was doing all kinds of experiments with life itself and its origins.After Knowles follows them to Germany and they all make the acquaintance of Ilona Massey. When Knowles gets the idea to start playing Dr. Frankenstein the usual climactic mayhem breaks loose as even the frightened villagers who've had quite enough of the Frankenstein family take some matters once again into their own hands. The cycle was getting very thin despite a cast of competent performers giving their best. Fans of Universal Gothic should like Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man. Too little use was made of Bela Lugosi as the Frankenstein monster and Lionel Atwill as the Burgomeister now having two good arms.

TheRedDeath30 King Kong vs Godzilla, Alien vs Predator, Freddy vs Jason...essentially this is the movie that spawned every monster mash-up in history.I am a giant Universal Monster geek and my favorite of them all is THE WOLF MAN, so I am most likely a little bit biased when it comes to an impartial opinion on this movie. Of the six major Universal monsters created in the "talking era", Wolfie is the only one who never received a direct sequel. Instead, the sequel to THE WOLF MAN was melded together with the sequel to GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN to create this classic. As other reviewers have stated, it almost feels like two separate movies, at times. The first half of the movie is very much a sequel to THE WOLF MAN, beginning with one of the eeriest scenes in Universal history, as two grave robbers break into the Talbot family crypt looking for riches and instead uncover death by moonlight. This scene reminds me of the EC Comics that would come a decade later and is one of the best parts of this movie. From there, Larry Talbot begins a quest to free himself from his affliction, which eventually brings him to the castle of Frankenstein. You can see the basis of what would have made a spectacular sequel to WOLF had it been allowed to develop. That's not to say the end result is not, also, spectacular because rather than continuing Larry's quest, we begin our second half of the movie, picking up after the events in GHOST OF FRANK and culminating in a fight (sort of) between our two titular monsters.Like all Universal sequels, this one requires quite a bit of suspension of belief, along with a short memory in terms of what has come before in the two series. As has been mentioned many times, there were numerous problems with Bela Lugosi as the monster, ending up with no explanation for why is is blind and mute. The end result is a shambling, stiff creature who is the basis of every bad Frankenstein impression to come. There are confusing references to who created the monster and how much the Baroness' father had to do with it. Had the viewer not seen the previous installments, it would be very hard to figure out who the Baroness is and who created the monster. While we're on the topic of the Baroness, herself, her character had been played by Evelyn Ankers in GHOST OF FRANK, but as she also played Larry Talbot's love interest in WOLF MAN, Uni felt that would be confusing, so Ilona Massey takes over the role and, somehow, between the movies the character picks up a thick Hungarian accent. Adding more cloud to the continuity is the fact that Castle Frankenstein was destroyed at the end of GHOST yet somehow remains in place in this movie.All those things can be forgiven, though. What horror franchise hasn't played a little loose with continuity to keep events moving? I love this movie for the dark feel of the first half and the focus on a great character in Larry Talbot. I love this movie for the thrill it gave me, as a kid, in seeing two monsters in one movie. I love it for being a sequel two Universal movies in one. It's fun and thrilling and a monster kid can't ask for much more than that.